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POLITICO reports Russia plans to nearly double kamikaze drone production by 2029

Documents show Rosatom expanding carbon fiber capacity to manufacture 28,000 additional weaponized drones annually.

Two arrested in Manchester counter-terrorism operation

Police arrested two men on suspicion of terrorism offences in Manchester city centre on Sunday afternoon.

Police warn AI-equipped drones pose escalating threat to U.S. cities

A Police Executive Research Forum report cites unauthorized drone flights and AI advances as urgent public safety risks requiring federal…

• Sep 19 Police Executive Research Forum releases drone-AI threat report
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CrowdSec discloses source-code leak traced to TanStack npm supply-chain attack

A stolen GitHub token from a former employee's compromised laptop let an attacker copy 170 private CrowdSec repositories, the security firm…

• Sep 18 10:08 PM CrowdSec's CEO publishes a detailed post-mortem
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Scammers trick crypto users into draining their own wallets via fake Claude bot tutorials

A viral X thread describes YouTube tutorials that lure people into building an AI trading bot and unknowingly deploying malicious code…

• Sep 20 9:55 AM @wyckoffweb exposes self-drain crypto scam via fake AI bot tutorials
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Romanian crime rings drain U.S. welfare accounts through fraud scheme

Wall Street Journal investigation reveals organized crime networks exploiting benefits systems to steal from American welfare programs.

Russia's FSB imposes curfew along border with NATO's Estonia

New restrictions ban night movement, river boating and hunting near the Estonia frontier, part of the border with Narva.

• Sep 20 FSB announces curfew and border curbs near Estonia
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Researchers break out of OpenAI Codex sandbox, run host commands

Security researchers found two ways to escape OpenAI's Codex sandbox, including one that executes commands on a developer's machine from…

Cybersecurity experts: human attackers with AI remain bigger threat than rogue AI

Energy infrastructure remains dangerously vulnerable to cyberattack, but AI in criminal hands poses a greater near-term risk than…

Claude Opus 5 used to breach OpenAI's internal systems in under 72 hours

Three researchers exploited a Discourse bug with Anthropic's AI to access OpenAI employee accounts and source code, earning a $6,500 bounty.

• Sep 18 OpenAI confirms breach and patches both vulnerabilities
• Sep 18 Wall Street Journal and news outlets disclose the breach
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Analyst predicts large Saudi military response to Houthi attacks

King's College London researcher Nawaf Obaid tells Al Jazeera that Saudi Arabia is set to respond forcefully to attacks launched by Yemen's…

Viral post alleges organized train robberies via burning cars on tracks near San Bernardino

A social media account claims criminal groups are blocking trains with burning vehicles to stage robberies in Southern California.

• Sep 20 1:43 AM @OC_Scanner claims organized train robberies hit San Bernardino trains
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Telegraph: Putin's Geran-5 drones pose serious NATO threat

Analysis warns that a strike in Poland could test NATO's collective defense commitment.

• Sep 18 3:28 AM Telegraph names Geran-5 as serious NATO threat
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Vladimir PutinDavid Blair

Congress probes vanished F-35 stealth parts rerouted through Hong Kong

A shipment of classified F-35 components bound for the US from Australia was diverted mid-Pacific to Hong Kong in June and has not been…

• Sep 19 3:00 AM Public debates whether the diversion was espionage or error
• Sep 18 2:00 PM Pentagon and Lockheed respond to the missing shipment
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Pete HegsethPentagon F-35 Joint Program Office+4

State Department issues Mideast alert to US citizens

The State Department warned Americans across the Middle East region, citing security concerns.

Claude AI finds seed-independent collisions in popular hash functions

Analysis using Claude Fable reveals cryptographic weaknesses in widely-used hashing algorithms including xxHash, HighwayHash, and others.

• Sep 20 3:19 PM Ahle clarifies methodology amid post reception
• Sep 20 8:55 AM Detailed analysis shows most fast hashes fail under adversarial inputs
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Guardian explains homoglyph attacks as scams increasingly use lookalike characters

Fraudsters exploit visually identical characters from different alphabets to create convincing fake URLs and emails.

• Sep 20 2:00 AM ESET and NordVPN experts explain homoglyph attacks as psychological…
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Blogger says Google AI Studio fakes data deletion, VRP auto-bans him for reporting it

A Medium post alleges Google's AI Studio shows false deletion confirmations and that reporting the flaw triggered an instant ban from…

Viral clip of a cockpit-ejecting 'ramming weapon' draws '一 これはひどい' reaction

An X post sharing footage of a weapon whose pilot compartment detaches just before impact spreads to Japanese social media.

• Sep 19 11:27 PM @hayakawa2600 posts viral reaction to weapon footage
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MeidasTouch publishes images of Iranian strike damage at US base in Kuwait

Exclusive photos allege a leveled airfield and a direct drone hit on a bunker after an Iranian attack on a US installation in Kuwait.

• Sep 18 9:58 PM Middle East Eye amplifies MeidasNews' damage images
• Sep 18 3:59 PM MeidasTouch publishes images of Kuwait base destruction
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Polymarket bug reportedly let identity thieves access existing user accounts

A flaw in Polymarket's platform reportedly allowed attackers to break into existing accounts using stolen identity information.

• Sep 20 1:10 AM Gizmodo publishes full report on the account-access bug
• Sep 19 9:00 PM Gizmodo reports Polymarket bug enabled account takeovers
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TTP-linked bombing hits mosque in northwestern Pakistan during Friday prayers

An armed group tied to the Pakistani Taliban claims a mosque attack that killed and injured dozens, reviving debate over Islamabad's…

Researchers use Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI's internal systems

Hacktron says it took under 72 hours to breach OpenAI employee accounts and its GitHub 'Monorepo' with Claude's help, days after OpenAI…

• Sep 18 10:00 AM Coverage details 72-hour breach of OpenAI's employee accounts and 'Monorepo'
• Sep 17 10:47 PM Hacktron publishes technical account of the OpenAI hack
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Researcher factors RSA-896 cryptographic challenge with Claude AI

A researcher used Anthropic's Claude to factor a 896-bit RSA number, disclosing the prime factors publicly.

Ledger Donjon breaks RP2350 debug lock using laser fault injection

Security researchers used a focused laser to flip bits and unlock debug access on Raspberry Pi's RP2350 microcontroller, solving the chip's…

Skirmishes erupt between protesters and ICE agents outside Broadview facility

Clashes outside the Broadview ICE facility spark a wave of anger online over masked federal agents and calls to abolish ICE.

• Sep 20 12:15 AM Calls emerge to disband ICE and break up DHS
• Sep 19 11:38 PM Some commenters escalate rhetoric to existential stakes
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NORAD F-16 intercepts aircraft violating Camp David airspace with Trump present

A general aviation aircraft was intercepted over restricted airspace near the presidential retreat Saturday morning; the pilot was safely…

• Sep 19 5:01 PM NORAD clarifies flare deployment posed no danger to ground
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Donald TrumpNORAD / First Air Force

UK military sites face near-daily drone incidents amid Russia hybrid threat warnings

FOI data show 340 drone incidents at UK defence sites in a year, prompting accusations the government is 'asleep' to a growing hybrid…

• Sep 19 NATO's Dragone says hybrid attacks target public trust
• Sep 18 Suspected drone activity halts flights at Luxembourg's Findel airport
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Tobias EllwoodLouise Sandher-Jones+4

US confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit, sparking arms-race warnings

Air Force Secretary Troy Meink's admission of "on-orbit" space-control weapons draws formal protests from China and Russia and warnings of…

• Sep 18 8:00 AM Commentary warns a miscalculated orbit could trigger wider conflict
• Sep 17 5:04 AM Reuters and Pentagon leadership expand on what the weapons admission means
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Troy MeinkDan Caine+3

Bellingcat reveals Christy Kinahan's UAE visa cancelled

Irish crime boss Kinahan's residence permit was cancelled in August, weeks after his son's extradition to Ireland.

Christy KinahanDaniel Kinahan+4

US Air Force B-1B bomber departs RAF Fairford loaded with munitions

A B-1B Lancer strategic bomber left the UK air base carrying a full weapons load, drawing attention on social media.

• Sep 19 12:00 PM B-1B bomber takes off from RAF Fairford loaded with munitions
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Pentagon pursues creation of dedicated 'AI Force' military branch

Following Space Force model, U.S. military explores establishing separate command structure for artificial intelligence operations.

Open-weight AI models trigger year-long security crisis

Cheap, abliterated LLMs like GLM 5.3-flash can find vulnerabilities faster than humans can patch them.

• Sep 19 11:41 PM Community debate over practical sandboxing solutions emerges
• Sep 19 6:21 PM Community identifies sandboxing as critical missing defense
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NordVPN report: AI voice cloning fraud up 7.4x in two years, tools sold for $500

A new NordVPN report finds AI voice cloning scams surging as cloning software becomes cheap and widely advertised.

Al-Qaida-linked JNIM claims deadly Mali army camp attack, releases soldier captive videos

The militant group claims to have killed over 100 Malian soldiers and captured dozens in a Sept. 10 assault on a central Mali base.